My father Pulin Babu lived and died for Indigenous Aboriginal Black Untouchables. His Life and Time Covered Great Indian Holocaust of Partition and the Plight of Refugees in India. Which Continues as continues the Manusmriti Apartheid Rule in the Divided bleeding Geopolitics. Whatever I stumbled to know about this span, I present you. many things are UNKNOWN to me. Pl contribute.
Palash Biswas

"The Day India Burned"--A Documentary On Partition Part-1/9

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Partition of India - refugees displaced by the partition

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Urgent : Encroachment and Destruction of Yamuna Floodplains

Urgent : Encroachment and Destruction of Yamuna Floodplains

Press Release

Urgent : Encroachment and Destruction of Yamuna Floodplains

16th February, 2016 | New Delhi

A group of public intellectuals and social activists have written a letter Hon'ble President, Prime minister and concerned government representatives to stop the encroachment and destruction of Yamuna Floodplains. The 35th Anniversary of the 'Art of Living' Foundation, a private organisation formed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji is scheduled in March, 2016. The work is in progress, which is destabilising and destructing the ecosystem of river as floodplains are getting encroached and damaged largely, which used to play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity and health of the river.

Please go through the letter pasted below and also find the attached pictorial report of Yamuna Floodplains.

The media reports inform about your honour's plans to participate in March 2016 at the planned celebrations of the 35th Anniversary of the 'Art of Living' Foundation, a private organisation formed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji.

Under the normal circumstances, your participation at any such event would not raise any issue of concern. However, in the present instance, when the said event is being planned after clearing, compacting, dumping of earth and construction underway over some 1000 acres of the active flood plain of river Yamuna in Delhi, and the matter being sub-judice at the National Green Tribunal in OA No 65 of 2016 as prima facie the said preparations are in violation of the NGT judgment of 13 January 2015 in OA No 6 of 2012 and OA No 300 of 2013, your honour's participation might appear to lend legitimacy to an illegal activity.

We would like to draw your attention to a pictorial report (enclosed) that highlights through comparative photos of Sept 15, 2015 and Feb 5, 2016, how a verdant flood plain has got systematically destroyed and is being converted for the event. It may be added here that Yamuna floodplains has already suffered many encroachments and this additional encroachment will only make the situation worse.

According to India's current National Water policy, "Conservation of rivers, river corridors, water bodies and infrastructure should be undertaken in a scientifically planned manner through community participation… Environmental needs of Himalayan regions, aquatic eco-system, wet lands and embanked flood plains need to be recognized and taken into consideration while planning." In current case, the National Water Policy stands violated.

According to experts the integrity of flood plains of rivers are the river's life lines in the following manner[1]: "Floodplain waters contain at least 100 times more species than do river channels, and there is growing evidence that many, if not all, of the species that live in rivers depend in some way on floodplains. Floodplains are nature's water treatment works, removing vast quantities of pollutants from inland river waters. They also provide rivers with the building blocks of life, which are used by everything from bacteria to fish". It is clear that current event is destroying the Yamuna floodplains and all the associated services it provides.

Some opine that but it is just a small fraction of a large area. But a violation of rule of law remains a violation, however, small it is shown to be and sets a bad precedent. Just like a boil that could turn into a cancer on a human body, every bit of flood plain of a river if lost or converted jeopardises the river's health. As we all know, Yamuna riverbed and floodplain already stands encroached.

Some other's opine that but it is just for few days. Sir, again the event might be for few days but the devastation that results from its preparatory and operational phase (specially of the dimension of this event where some 35 lakh persons are expected to participate and a stage spread over some 7 acres is planned to be constructed) would outlasts decades in terms of river Yamuna's health, which already is in no great shape.

Accordingly it is our humble request to your honour to kindly reconsider your plans, so as not to lend legitimacy with your august presence to an event that is under the NGT's scanner for violation of its prohibition imposed in January 2015 and is setting such a problematic precedent.

The Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied ...

Politics, Economics and the GLOBE

Marxist and the Gandhi

Dharmaveer

Dharamaveer, then Governor of Bengal 9second from Left) with Jyoti basu, deputy CM, Mrs Indira gandhi, PM and Ajoy Mukherjee , CM. Dharamveer belonged to Dhramanagari in Bijnore, Sabita`s maternal Home. Bengali Refugees in Bijnore had been resettled in the State of King Jwala Prasad. Dharmaveer was the Eldest PRINCE of the State

Marichjhanpi Massacre, First genocide by the Marxist Brahaminical Hegemony

Peasant Uprising

Mahendra singh Tikait, the leader of bharatiya Kisan Union and me during the Massive Rally under Peasant uprising in western UP

The Poet with Us

Baba nagarjun the Poet at our Amravati residence where he stayed with us. From Left Shobhakant , the youngest son of the Poet, Me ,Baba and Sabita

Me and Sabita in Home Town

Me and sabita in our Home Town Nainital after our marriage

Cancer Ward

ND Tiwari assureing my Dying father who later succumbed to Cancer in 2001 that he would establish a canser Hospital as my father wished last. Tiwari never Visited Basantipur after my Father`s death and simply forgot about the hospital

MIli and Subhash with the Poet

Mili, My cousin Subhash `s Wife, who died succumbing to Septosemia in NRS Hospital on first May 1995, Subhsh, Me and Sabita with the Prominet Hindi Poet Baba Nagarjun who also died later flanked by Left Totan , only son of Mili and subhsh and Tussu. Baba satyed with us in 1992

Generation Next

From Left, Biplab , the eleder Son of Padmalochan my brother, Tussu my son and Tutul, the yonger son of Lochan. Biplabis no more as heexpired on 25th May 1991, four days after the death of rajiv Gandhi in Bomb Blast. biplab sucumbed to Fever at aged only Six

Meeradi

My eldest cousin Meeradi with her Grand son shivanand who is a Young Man but Deaf and dumb

My villagers

My Villagers during the last journey of their Comrade, and head of the Village family, Pulin Babu

Last Rites

We all brothers and boys at home during Last Rites of my father while Jethamoshai looks on

FRIENDS in DSB

Me9thirdfrom left with DSB Friends in seventies

JETHAMOSHAI

My Father`s elder Brother

ND Tiwar at Home

ND Tiwari on the Death Bed of his Close Friend, my Father accepts ISHWAR KI Galti